**** update: variations on a theme. **** update 2: And another.  And another! And ibid.

AP: A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights. A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights. Judge Joyce Hens

If pressed, many blue collar workers living in or around Milwaukee in the mid-to-late 1950s would readily admit that the world of “Happy Days” is an absurd reflection of the cultural ethos as they remember it.  A more accurate description might be something like, “Asbestos Days,” or “Laverne and Shirley Get Knocked Up by Poor Germanic Toughs and Wind Up Whores Hooked on Smack by Early 1962.”

From FOXNews (live):  Hillary Clinton collapsed while delivering a speech to the Chamber of Commerce near Buffalo. Developing…. **** update: AP reports that she was suffering from a stomach illness.  She has been taken to a local hospital. **** update 2: FOXNews is now saying she has not been taken to the hospital after all. **** update 3: Senator Clinton will resume her regular speaking schedule, FOXNews is reporting. ****

In the run-up to today’s historic Iraqi moment, the liberal left repeatedly insisted that the January elections couldn’t take place on time. Now that they’ve taken place, that same liberal left is telling us that the elections they said could not take place were the “easy part.” — Which proclamations, when one deploys the transitive property of equality, express themselves in this simple equation: Left liberals → can’t be done